LOUISE Port, 38, who was convicted of four counts of housing benefit fraud between 2007 and 2011, broke down in tears when a judge ordered her to pay back £91,330.

A FORMER breakfast TV presenter convicted of benefit fraud was yesterday ordered to repay more than £100,000.

Louise Port, 38, who worked on GMTV until 2006 and used to date ex-Scotland football manager Craig Brown, broke down in tears when a judge told her to pay back £91,330 to City of Westminster Council.

Port, originally from Golspie in Sutherland, also owes £10,000 in council tax and must repay half the £15,000 prosecution costs.

She was convicted of four counts of housing benefit fraud between 2007 and 2011 at a previous hearing. But in an “act of mercy” she was handed an 18-month suspended sentence because she suffers from epilepsy.

Port earlier told the court she could afford to pay back just £74,000 and tried to claim her father, Campbell Port, owned a 27 per cent share of her two-bedroom flat in west London.

She bought the property in 1996 for £89,000 but it’s now estimated to be worth £300,000.

Her father appeared at Southwark Crown Court yesterday to support her claims.

However, Alexandra Ward, prosecuting, said the £25,000 he gave her was a gift.